From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: csmall@eye-net.com.au (Craig Small) Subject: Re: IPv6 Amateur Allocation ? Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:00:54 +1000 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020730110054.GD7293@eye-net.com.au> References: <20020729193853.GA842@columbia.g7iii.bogus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020729193853.GA842@columbia.g7iii.bogus> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Iain Young - G7III Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 08:38:53PM +0100, Iain Young - G7III wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I know Amateur Radio has a IPv4 alllocation (44/8). Does Anyone know > if we have an IPv6 allocation ? And if so, what it is ? Well, we actually have two allocations in a way... The less interesting one is v4 mapped addresses, ::44.x.y.z pretty boring really. The more interesting ones are the 6to4 addresses. These are a rather large subnet of IPv6 addresses for each IPv4 address. All you have to do is have some connectivity into the IPv6 network and then a 6to4 gateway, to speed things up you could even have a 6to4 gateway near mirrorshades (it could even be mirrorshades but I won't wish that upon Brian). The 6to4 address contains the IPv4 address in it. Special 6to4 gateways advertise the entire 6to4 network or parts of the network (this theoretical ampr 6to4 gateway would say "I can get 6to4 addresses for what is translated from 44.0.0.0/8" ). The 6to4 gateway knows about these special addresses and then encapsulates the packet into a IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel to the IPv4 address. I don't believe there is any direct allocation of IPv6 addresses to radio amateurs, NICs are too fascist for that these days :( Go grab a 6bone block. I got one and, well it's ok and its free! If you run IPv6 already, have a crack at getting to http://www.ipv6.eye-net.com.au/ - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ MIEEE Debian developer